72 Minutes of Dead Production: The Sensor Integration Fix

Engineering the Intelligent Enterprise · Jun 28, 2026 · 43m

72 Minutes of Dead Production: The Sensor Integration Fix

14 Hidden Operational Bottlenecks in Heavy Industry

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You sit in a boardroom looking at an 85 percent machine utilisation rate.

You feel successful.

I walk the factory floor and watch an operator clear a feeder jam with a broom handle every twelve minutes.

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My mother thinks I build robots. I mostly argue with factory sensors.

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When a machine stops for two minutes, the operator fixes it.

They never write it…